US Patent Issued to InnerPlant on July 15 for "Method for identifying stressors in an agricultural environment based on characteristics of microbe sensors" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,044, issued on July 15, was assigned to InnerPlant Inc. (Davis, Calif.).

"Method for identifying stressors in an agricultural environment based on characteristics of microbe sensors" was invented by Shely Aronov (San Francisco), Ari Kornfeld (San Francisco) and Roderick Kumimoto (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One variation of a method includes accessing an image of a plant canopy in an environment inhabited by: a population of microbe sensors of a microbe type including a microbe promoter-reporter pair configured to generate microbe-reporter signals representing presence of a stressor in the environment; and a set of s...